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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here, forgot to include the link I was looking at: https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/aaron2446/viz/MSDCSeatsandWaitlistOfferData_draft/MSDCPublicDisplay

Thanks PP! For 1, I'm just puzzled about how they are not expecting for so very few students out of 200+ 8th graders at Hardy to go MacArthur. I was thinking at least half of Hardy would go to MacArthur, say 100. Then we have 185 'lotteried' kids now. 285 kids in 9th grade for a school with 800 students capacity seems a bit nuts. [/quote]

The answer is that majority of Hardy kids did not pick MA and went to JR.  This is very obvious since MA is a title 1 school.

The other answer is that did not list MA high and got in and went with a higher rank school.
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Will it still be Title 1 though as it morphs into a neighborhood school? Most of the kids from Hardy aren’t low income, as I understand it anyway.[/quote]

What makes you think that will happen? Look at Eastern for example. Still Title I after all these years.[/quote]

Are you saying the demographics and income levels of the Eastern catchment is even remotely similar to the MacArthur catchment?! If you are, you’re wrong. [/quote]

That's not what they are saying at all. They are saying that if Eastern served a representative sample of its neighborhood it would not be a Title I. Yet it is a Title I, because people have other options and aren't choosing Eastern. Much like how people zoned for MacArthur have other options. The demographics don't have to be identical to produce a similar result.[/quote]

I think it's a bad comparison for a different reason. Eastern has five feeders. MacArthur has one.

Getting collective buy in from MC/UMC families across five feeder schools that themselves have minimal buy in from MC/UMC families is a lot harder than getting collective buy in from MC/UMC families from one feeder school that already has a large MC/UMC population.[/quote]

Maybe. Hardy is 33% economically disadvantaged, just FYI. And you have to understand that even if entering 9th grade classes are significantly more high-income, it takes a while for that to move the average of the school as a whole. And Macarthur was set up to have room for out of boundary kids, on purpose. So that will also affect the numbers. And DCPS and school leadership can make efforts to stay Title I to get the money. So I just don't see MacArthur getting off the Title I designation list anytime soon.[/quote]

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